Heavy PR and advertizing notwithstanding, Green Zone opened with a miserable $14.3 million box office over the last weekend. The film was shown in over 3,000 theaters which is usually reserved for potential hits only to fall on its proverbial face. When will Hollywood ever learn. It joins a dozen or so failed anti-Bush anti-war […]

Warner Bros. Pictures, Dec. 20, 2006, Directed by Clint Eastwood, 141 min., Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya (Saigo), Ken Watanabe (Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi), Tsuyoshi Ihara (Baron Nishi), Ryo Kase (Shimizu), Shidou Nakamura (Lieutenant Ito), Nae (Hanako) This is the second offering (Flags of Our Fathers, the first) about the battle which raged on Iwo Jima island […]

Touchstone Pictures, Dec. 8, 2006, 138 min., Directed by Mel Gibson, Cast:  Rudy Youngblood (Jaguar Paw), Israel Contrares (Smoke Frog), Raoul Trujillo (Zero Wolf), Morris Birdyellowhead (Flint Sky), Dalia Hernandez (Seven), Carlos Emilio Baez (Turtles Run), Jonathan Brewer (Blunted), Ricardo Diaz Mendoza (Cut Rock) The movie opens with a chase scene in the jungle.  A […]

Warner Bros., oct. 2006, directed by Clint Eastwood.  Starring: Ryan Phillipe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach. The film is far different than the trailers would seem to indicate.  It is really two separate stories. First there is the story of the battle for Iwo Jima, one of the greatest sieges in American military history.  Over 7,000 […]